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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

easy to see what happened in the first one - 'd' is right next to 's' on the keyboard.second one summarizes those parties i think i went to in university fairly well - my recollection's a bit fuzzy thoughRest are pretty standard wreckage... till the beetles. I'm reminded of a quote - "Living is easy with eyes closed." - The Beatles

Much as this makes me want to rewrite "My Favorite Things", I'll give you a break today and restrain myself.It was fantastic meeting you both last night Jen and John. I just wish I could have stayed and chatted with you all night. If you find yourself with a few spare hours today (It's not like you have a schedule or anything, right?) I'd love to see you again before you leave the country. What do you say to dinner at my house?

Also, unrelated to today's post, I just want to point out what possessed me write those terrible wrecky versions of otherwise harmless songs over the past week or so, and I'm going to do that with some assistance from The Beach Boys:

Please tell me those chocolate bugs are made from a mold. Otherwise, judging from the size scale of the strawberries...those are GIANT bugs! And I really don't want to live in a world where insects are that big.

Ok, durf's up looks like a beach that needs a cleanup! oil slick in the water, environmental hazard on the shore that buried those hapless surfers....unless it was the water (reminds me of a Stephen King short story I read way back....)

that butterfly is disturbing. the poo body, the wrinkled spraypainted wings....

freaky monkey scares me.

I just read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"--so that weepy "kitten" is freaking me out!

is that next one really a face? or maybe the mutant multi-colored mother of the pacman ghosts??

aren't real beetles a specialty in the middle east? yuck. crunchy. and the one looks like it's flipping the bird....

Beer, Tequila and Shame was for my son's 18th b-day. We live in Alberta, Canada and the drinking age is 18 here :)The morning after his 18th b-day we were all sitting around having coffee and he smelled his hockey jersey which he wore out the night before. I asked him what the heck it smelled like and he said "Beer, tequila and shame", so naturally that needed to go on his cake.The decorator didn't even flinch when I asked for this, a pretty typical request I guess :)

I have this image from Mythbusters stuck in my head of those beetles hitting a board simulating the effect of the bug hitting a motorcyclist at 65 mph. That was the one that actually could kill a person.

After that, not so sure I'm looking for cake. Mad skills, though, on whomever created them. Do we have a translation of the cake's inscription?

Raising stag beetles is a very popular hobby for Japanese kids. In former times it might even mean some kind of growing up ritual, as the boy had to take care of the very slowly developing animal. As these were given to him when he slowly started to turn into an adult, they helped him to develop a sense of responsibility for the animals.

#7 If those are Goliath beetles, the scale probably is accurate. Congratulations to the person who sculpted those entirely from chocolate with no added 'ingredients'. Right? (Mmmm. Crunchy, with a gooey center.)

Cake #1 should come after Cake #2 because if I ate cake after a night of beer, tequila and shame it would come out looking like that...

And my first thought on the beetles was: "yum, those beetles are solid chocolate! Yay!"And my second thought only moments later was: 'oh my god, what if they are only chocolate dipped?" and then I was worried that my desk was going to look like cake #1

I'm afraid that I must let you know that those kinds of bugs do get that big in real life.

Anyway onto the subject of the cakes....

#1: What is a Duys? And why is it up?

#2: Hmmm...so the person just joined a Sorority/Fraternity?

#3: A poo butterfly...[holy grail]yah![/holy grail]

#4: It's staring into my soul...it knows my name!.........AAAH!!!!!

#5: For a Demon Kitten it's not that bad.

#6: Notify Garfield. John has been cooking again! Stop making Creatures that Lived in the Refrigerator, behind the Mayonnaise, next to the Ketchup, and to the Left of the Cole Slaw! There is enough pain in the universe already.

#7: hmmm....Chocolate bugs the same size as the real bugs they are trying to be. Fingers crossed they are just chocolate.